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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Where Is Cuba Going?

On the plane, something odd but also vaguely magical-seeming happened:
namely, nobody knew what time it was. Right before we landed, the flight
attendant made an announcement, in English and Spanish, that although
daylight saving time recently went into effect in the States, the island
didn’t observe that custom. As a result, we had caught up — our time
had passed into sync with Cuban time. You will not need to change your
watches. Then, moments later, she came on again and apologized. She had
been wrong, she said. The time in Cuba
was different. She didn’t specify how many hours ahead. At that point,
people around us looked at one another. How could the airline not know
what time it is where we’re going? Another flight attendant, hurrying
down the aisle, said loudly, “I just talked to some actual Cubans, in
the back, and they say it’ll be the same time.” That settled it: we
would be landing in ignorance. We knew our phones weren’t going to work
because they were tied to a U.S. company that didn’t operate on the
island.